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Indenting bulleted lists

Joshi Vallejo
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October 28, 2024

I feel silly asking this but is there any way to indent bulleted lists?

I just want to be able to move things to the right? I feel like this should be a basic feature or I maybe it's there and I am just missing something. 

  • thing 1 
  • thing 2 
  • thing 3

 

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This Guy
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October 28, 2024

Insert bullet list (Ctrl + Shilf + B)

Indented bullet list - put the cursor on the beginning and press tab.

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Evgenii
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October 28, 2024

Hi, @Joshi Vallejo 

Welcome to Atlassian Community

Sure, Confluence has such functionality. To indent text, use the Indent button on the toolbar or press the Tab key. This works for both blocks of text and bulleted or numbered lists.

You can find more information about text formatting in Confluence Cloud here:
https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/format-text/

 

Fiona Maher February 3, 2025

This doesn't work. Tabbing an existing numbered list doesn't do anything (and the indent right button is greyed out).

If I right indent multiple paragraphs so they all line up slightly indented under the heading, then apply numbered list to paragraphs within the content - the numbered lists move back to the left margin with no way to indent them right.

Heading

   Paragraph line starts here

1. Numbered list is pushed back to the left.

   Next paragraph starts here

 

I want content to look like this:

Heading

   Paragraph line starts here

   1. Numbered list is pushed back to the left.

   Next paragraph starts here

 

When there is a text heavy article with a lot of headings, it's much easier to read when the headings are slightly left compared to the content paragraphs underneath.

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